Veterans who were co-prescribed an opioid and benzodiazepine by doctors at the Department of Veterans Affairs faced an increased mortality risk, a new report found. Opioids are typically prescribed ...

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Last week, Britain's Independent newspaper published a bombshell for psychiatry and medicine: the country's Medical Research Council had sat on warnings voiced 30 years earlier that benzodiazepines ...

While the nation has focused on opioid addiction, experts tell Healthline that benzodiazepines such as Ativan can also be addictive and dangerous. Share on Pinterest When Janis* separated from her ...

“Benzodiazepines have well-established acute adverse effects on cognition,” write Netherlands-based Erasmus University professors of Epidemiology, Radiology, and Neurology in the latest issue of BMC ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Benzodiazepine or Z-drug treatment was linked to increased risk for nonfatal drug-related poisoning among ...

ERIE, Colo., Oct. 23, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- In 1979, Senator Ted Kennedy led a Senate subcommittee hearing into the dangers of benzodiazepines stating, "these drugs have produced a nightmare of ...

WASHINGTON — Veterans who were prescribed an opioid and a benzodiazepine at the same time by the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) faced an increased risk of death, says a new report from the ...